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title: Preparing to Deploy on vSphere
owner: Release Integration
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You must configure DNS correctly for your Cloud Foundry environment. See 
the [Setting Up DNS for Your Environment](../common/dns_prereqs.html) topic 
for more information.

## Step 1: Deploy BOSH ##

* [Initializing BOSH on vSphere](https://bosh.io/docs/init-vsphere.html)

## Step 2: Deploy Cloud Foundry ##

* [Customizing the Cloud Foundry Deployment Manifest Stub for vSphere](../common/vsphere-vcloud-cf-stub.html)
* [Deploying Cloud Foundry using BOSH](../common/deploy.html): Deploy!
